Librarian

**Hours**: 37 Hours Per Week

**Interview Date**: 8th August 2023

**Closing Date**: 16th July 2023

**Salary**: Grade Hay Band A (£30,151.00-£34,723.00 FTE)

Inspire is a value led community benefit society delivering library services on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council, alongside culture and learning services. We are focussed on delivering positive impact for our customers.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced individual to support the purchase, management and promotion of stock at Inspire libraries across the county, working with partners and staff to deliver excellent resources for customers.

A passion for books, reading and libraries and good knowledge in these areas is essential. Practical experience in book selection, reading promotion and delivering creative cultural events is essential. You must be happy to work under your own initiative, with flexibility, and have good communication and organisational skills. Driving is preferable as you may be required to travel to any of Inspire’s Libraries across Nottinghamshire.

Working 37 hours per week including some weekend and evening working, this is an excellent opportunity to ensure that our customers can access great breadth and depth of resources and contribute to an information and reading development offer to meet our user’s needs.

**_Job Description_**

**Job Title**

**Librarian**

**Inspire: Culture, Learning & Libraries**

**Grade**

**Hay A**

**Job Purpose**

**_ _**To ensure effective delivery of the Inspire Offer in libraries, working with the district team to ensure excellent customer service, engaging with communities, promoting the offer and coordinating local activities to support need and demand.

**Key Responsibilities**
1. To deliver the Inspire Offer in libraries as required by the Libraries and Culture Manager, ensuring customer focussed and professional delivery and meeting Inspire’s mission to inspire people to read, learn and enjoy culture.

2. To lead service delivery and development projects, activities and tasks across library, arts, heritage and learning services and throughout the county as required to deliver best practice and innovative services.

3. To contribute to collection and stock management as required.

4. To promote the Inspire offer within Inspire sites, and within schools and the community.

5. To engage with designated communities and other stakeholders, coordinating local activities as needed to meet community needs and feeding back to the local team and countywide teams to ensure continuous improvement.

6. To support all aspects of service delivery as needed, as directed by the Libraries and Culture Manager and liaising with the Library Managers, Principal Library Managers and Lead Tutors, ensuring excellent customer service.

7. To work flexibly in location and time to meet service needs.

The post holder will work in accordance with all Inspire policies and procedures, Inspire Brand guidelines,
contractual requirements, and professional best practice

The post holder will perform any duties or tasks assigned by management required to meet service needs as appropriate to the role.

The post holder will assume the role of Appointed Person and/or First Aider as required

**_Education and Knowledge Required for the role_**

1. Graduate/postgraduate qualification in librarianship/information science/literature/creative arts.

2. Knowledge of national and local priorities for cultural, learning and library sectors.

**_Skills and Experience_**

1. Experience of working with the public in customer facing roles within the sector.

2. Experience of planning and delivering projects, events and activities within relevant sectors.

3. Excellent organisational skills, delivering projects to time, budget and quality standards.

**_Role Dimensions_**

**_ _**1. Service delivery across a large locality in a variety of library, heritage, learning and cultural disciplines.

2. Frontline delivery of services within a library environment.

**Job Title: Librarian**

**Inspire: Culture, Learning & Libraries**

**Grade: A**

Inspire Competencies

**Competency**

**Level**

**How we work at Inspire**

Customer Service

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2. Responds positively to customer concerns, acts to resolve or reassure customers as needed, agrees solutions with the customer or hands over to an appropriate colleague

3. Responds positively to any complaint or suggestion and seeks to resolve it within limits of their authority or hands over to a more senior manager as appropriate

Deliver the service offer

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1. Knows and/or accesses information to advise and promote the Inspire Service Offer to all customers - to meet their immediate needs and other services that could be of interest or benefit them

2. Embraces any changes to the offer and any associated changes to processes or working practices positively, takes responsibility for their own development and engages with and makes the most of development opportunities pr